 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 280 pages
...; Or substance might be calFd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either: black if stood as JVight, Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, And shook...from his seat The monster moving onward came as fast With horrid strides ; Hell trembled as he strode. The undaunted Fiend what this might be admir'd, Admir'd,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 278 pages
...Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either: black it stood as JVight, fierce as ten furies, terrible as Hell, And shook...from his seat The monster moving onward came as fast With horrid strides ; Hell trembled as he strode. The undaunted Fiend what this might be admir'd, Admird,... | |
 | John Broadbent - 1972 - 198 pages
...not sad she him received' (xn 609). Simile Milton's small similes are often weak. Of Death he says, black it stood as night, Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart. Bentley, editing PL in 1732, objected that 'to make one person, Death, to be as fierce as ten Furies... | |
 | Anne Ferry - 1983 - 207 pages
...in member, joynt, or limb, Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either; black it stood as Night, Fierce as ten Furies, terrible...seem'd his head The likeness of a Kingly Crown had on. (II, 666-673) Again the description is of physical qualities. Moral evaluations are implied only through... | |
 | Taylor Corse - 1991 - 164 pages
...portrait of Sin and Death. The reader may recall how Milton describes Satan's first encounter with Death: black it stood as Night, Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful Dart. (PL 2.670-72) Dryden's Alecto also "shakes" and throws "a pois'nous Dart"; this "Dart" is linked by... | |
 | Morton D. Paley - 1999 - 164 pages
...Condensed Blackness, and Abysmal Storm Compacted to one Sceptre Arms thy grasp enorm. The Intercepter! — black it stood as Night, Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart: what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. (ii. 670-3) As we can see, these eight short... | |
 | Michael A. Morrison - 1999 - 416 pages
...administration."76 The ascendancy of republican freedom was, they believed, secure in a rising American empire. — black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart; what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. Satan was now at hand. —John Milton, Paradise... | |
 | David Bromwich - 2001 - 275 pages
...in member, joint, or limb; Or substance might be called that shadow seemed, For each seemed either; black it stood as night; Fierce as ten furies; terrible as hell; And shook a dreadful dart; what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. Burke relates this description to his chosen... | |
 | John Milton, Merritt Yerkes Hughes - 2003 - 388 pages
...substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either; black it stood as Night, 870 Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, And shook...from his seat The Monster moving onward came as fast, 875 With horrid strides; Hell trembled as he strode. Th' undaunted Fiend what this might be admir'd,... | |
 | John Milton - 2003 - 1012 pages
...stood as night, 670 Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart; what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. Satan...from his seat The monster moving onward came as fast With horrid strides, hell trembled as he strode. The undaunted fiend what this might be admired,0 Admired,... | |
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And shook a dreadful dart ; what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. Satan was now at hand, and from his seat The monster moving onward came as fast With horrid strides; Hell trembled as he strode. 
